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Monday, November 28, 2011
India extends support to Nepal's peace process
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said India stands by the efforts of Nepal and its people towards logically concluding their peace process and the drafting of the constitution for a multi-party democracy, as he met a wide spectrum of political leaders in Kathmandu.
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Mukherjee, who is on a day-long visit to Nepal, met Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, besides all major political leaders, including Maoist supremo Prachanda, CPN-UML president Jhala Nath Khanal and Nepali Congress president Sushil Koirala. He also called on President Ram Baran Yadav.
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After meeting Bhattarai, Mukherjee said: "India stands by the efforts of the people and government of Nepal to logically conclude the peace process and finalise drafting of the constitution".
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"We want that the peace process and the constitution drafting process should be finalised so that after long struggle people of Nepal have created an atmosphere where
multi-party democracy can function effectively," he said.
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Welcoming the seven-point agreement reached among the political parties under the initiative of Bhattarai, the Finance Minister said: "We are confident that people of Nepal would be in a position through the representation of their respective political parties to come to the logical end of the peace process and drafting of a new constitution."
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During his meeting with Nepali Congress president Koirala and former Prime Minister and NC leader Sher Bahadur Deuba, Mukherjee said India wants to see how Nepal's democratisation process can be consolidated and the constitution-making process be expedited.
"Mukherjee mentioned about good relations existing between Congress I and Nepali Congress parties saying that India wants to see how democratisation process could be strengthened in Nepal," according to Nepali Congress central member Bimalendra Nidhi, who was also present during the meeting.
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During the meeting, Nepali Congress leaders briefed him about the ongoing peace process, constitution making process and the current political situation.
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Nepalese leaders told Mukherjee that they were hopeful over concluding the constitution-drafting in the next six months period, when the Indian leader asked about the delay in constitution drafting despite the terms of the Constituent Assembly being extended several times.
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Koirala told Mukherjee that his party was still apprehensive about the Maoists' motive as they had not yet committed to political pluralism. He added that the Nepali Congress wants parliamentary form of governance along with federalism to be incorporated in the new constitution, Nidhi said.
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Mukherjee on his part clarified that India does not want to impose anything on Nepal, and will support the peace process in whatever way the Nepalese people want.
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Under the seven-point pact, the major parties -- the ruling UCPN-Maoist, Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN-UML -- agreed to integrate up to 6,500 Maoist combatants into the country's security forces by forming a separate directorate under Nepal Army.
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Earlier, Mukherjee inked the DTAA (Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement) with Nepal and held bilateral talks with his Nepalese counterpart Barsha Man Pun.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Video: Chevy Volt under scrutiny
>>> we have late news tonight about the chevy volt which has been praised, as you may know, as a big step forward for chevy and general motors . federal officials tonight say they are investigating the safety of the lithium ion battery in the chevy volt . the national highway traffic safety administration said the battery caught fire after recent crash tests. gm said it supports the investigation and it's cooperating but the company notes the fires happened after extreme situations and there are no reports of similar incidents by owners. a lot of fire departments across the country have been training members in how to fight car fires that involve these batteries.
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Saturday, November 26, 2011
Piers Morgan & Wife Celia Walden Welcome A Baby Girl!
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Friday, November 25, 2011
NJ man acquitted of murdering 5 teenagers in '78
A teary-eyed Lee Evans walks to the defense chair during proceedings in the case in which he is charged with murdering five Newark teenagers more than 30 years ago, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in Newark, N.J. The teen's disappearance was once one of New Jersey's longest running cold cases. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
A teary-eyed Lee Evans walks to the defense chair during proceedings in the case in which he is charged with murdering five Newark teenagers more than 30 years ago, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, in Newark, N.J. The teen's disappearance was once one of New Jersey's longest running cold cases. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ? A New Jersey man on Wednesday was acquitted of locking five teenagers in an abandoned home in 1978 and burning them to death in retaliation for stealing marijuana, ending a case that went cold until 2008 because no bodies were ever found.
A jury in Newark found Lee Evans not guilty of 10 murder-related counts in the deaths of the teens.
Evans represented himself and denied killing the boys.
"It's a situation where I heard him say: 'not guilty,' but the fact is, they put this horrible thing on you, and you still feel guilty," a visibly stunned Evans said outside the courtroom moments after the verdict was read. He said he didn't feel vindicated by the verdict, adding the case had destroyed his life and livelihood.
"I'm literally tore up, ripped up inside from the case," he said. "How can you get past that?"
Several family members of the missing teenagers, who had packed the courtroom throughout the trial, wept and hugged one another.
"Not guilty does not mean innocent," said Terry Lawson, who was 11 when she saw last saw her older brother, Michael McDowell, climb into Evans' truck on the night he disappeared. "Mr. Evans may escape the law, but never the Lord."
McDowell said the families felt some relief learning so much more about what happened to the boys.
"We are grateful this case has been brought before a jury, understanding it's difficult to ask 12 people to go back 33 years without the technology and DNA available today," she said, adding, "We know in our hearts what happened to the boys, and we know that Mr. Evans is a guilty man walking free today."
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said they were disappointed in the verdict.
"This is a case that has bothered the collective conscious of the Newark police force over 33 years," Murray said. "This case was never forgotten, it was never put on a back shelf."
Prosecutors sought to prove that Evans planned to kill the teenagers as payback for breaking into his apartment and stealing a pound of marijuana a week before they vanished. Evans, who ran a handyman business, often hired the teens for odd jobs and paid them in marijuana, prosecutors said.
The case largely hinged on the prosecution's star witness, Evans' cousin Philander Hampton, who agreed to testify after pleading guilty in exchange for a 10-year prison sentence and $15,000 in relocation money. It was Hampton's comments to authorities in 2008 that helped revive the long-dormant case.
Hampton testified that Evans was angry about the marijuana theft and was bent on retaliation. Hampton said he helped Evans lure the teens to a vacant Newark house after asking them to help move some boxes, but then herded them into a closet and secured the door with a 6-inch nail. He said Evans poured gasoline around the perimeter, demanded that Hampton give him a match and set the house ablaze.
The bodies of 17-year-olds Melvin Pittman and Ernest Taylor and 16-year-olds Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell were never found. The boys were reported missing after the fire, and authorities at the time never connected the two events or examined the fire site as a crime scene.
The case, originally classified as a missing-persons case, went cold for decades until a pair of Newark detectives on the cusp of retirement decided to rework it as an unsolved homicide.
Several family members of the missing teenagers, many of whom attended every day of Evans' trial, said they had long believed Evans had killed their loved ones.
Evans and the attorney assisting him, Bukie Adetula, said the scenario to which Hampton testified would have been impossible and pointed out Hampton's criminal record and inconsistencies in his testimony.
Evans said he had lived and worked openly in the same community near Newark in the bordering city of Irvington, where many of the victims' families lived, and emphasized that fact as proof that he had nothing to hide.
Following the verdict, Evans said he wasn't sure what he would do next or whether he would remain in the community.
Murray, the prosecutor, said, "with respect to this case criminally, this case is closed."
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
Facebook: 6 degrees of separation? More like 4
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By Rosa Golijan
Ever play "The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" on a dull day? It's a game?in which you trace someone's movie roles in an attempt to connect him or her to actor Kevin Bacon in just six steps. The whole idea is based on the belief that any two individuals in the world are separated by no more than six degrees.
When the numbers were crunched in 2008, it was determined that 5.28 hops were necessary to connect pairs of Facebook users on average. In 2011, that number has dropped to 4.74.
Facebook's shaking up that ol' claim a bit,?by suggesting that there's an average of 4.74 "hops" ??or lines ??connecting every person to every other person. That actually means 3.74 "degrees of separation," because there are two hops between you and a friend of a friend, but your common friend represents just one degree of separation.
Oh, yes. It's a very small world after all.
The statistic was discovered when the folks at Facebook collaborated with researchers at the Universit? degli Studi di Milano and analyzed the social network's?721 million active users (who account for more than 10 percent of the global population).?
Using "state-of-the-art algorithms" developed at the university's Laboratory for Web Algorithmics, it was possible to approximate the "number of hops between all pairs of individuals on Facebook."
All that number crunching revealed that "99.6% of all pairs of users are connected by paths with 5 degrees (6 hops)" and "92% are connected by only four degrees (5 hops)." On average, only?4.74 hops were necessary to connect people.
Yes, this statistic means that you theoretically have a friend who is buddies with someone who knows a guy or gal who is friends with Ryan Gosling.
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Bionic Implants and Spectrum Clash
From the sound of it, prosthetic designers and engineers are planning devices that operate on single frequencies.
The animal brains and nervous systems operate quite a bit differently. The signals do not often rely in a single path or a single signal to make things happen. To transmit a true, low-power signal, multiple paths and multiple signal details are transmitted where it is the collection of these signals which spell out the truth. If there are minor glitches, interferences or inhibitions along the way, the general signal still gets through most of the time.
If they are thinking of making a brain to prosthetic control signalling system based on wireless communications, it would be a huge mistake not to use multiple signals and frequencies to make things happen as this is the way the brain and the nervous system already does things.
I find this to be the mistake they are likely to make as they made the same mistake with artificial blood circulation system which are intended to keep the body alive during heart surgeries. Initially, they just hooked up a streaming pump and wondered why the body wasn't working or surviving under that condition. Well, turns out that the body NEEDS the pumping and gushing style of blood circulation because as the blood is pushed, it still needs those moments of pause to absorb and distribute oxygen and other stuff like that.
I expect the mistake to be made. Now let's sit back and wait for it to come true.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Galaxy Nexus volume fix in the works, Google confirms
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
11 Amazing Things NASA's Huge Mars Rover Can Do (SPACE.com)
NASA is getting set to launch its next Mars rover this week, a 1-ton robotic beast that will take planetary exploration to the next level.
The car-size Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, slated to blast off Saturday (Nov. 26) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Curiosity's main goal is to assess whether the Red Planet is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life.
The rover will employ 10 different science instruments to help it answer this question once it touches down on the Red Planet in August 2012. Here's a brief rundown of these instruments (and one more on the rover's heat shield):
Mast Camera (MastCam)
The MastCam is Curiosity's workhorse imaging tool. It will capture high-resolution color pictures and video of the Martian landscape, which scientists will study and laypeople will gawk at.
MastCam consists of two camera systems mounted on a mast that rises above Curiosity's main body, so the instrument will have a good view of the Red Planet environment as the rover chugs through it. MastCam images will also help the mission team drive and operate Curiosity. [Photos of NASA's Curiosity Rover]
Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI)
MAHLI will function much like a high-powered magnifying glass, allowing Earthbound scientists to get up-close looks at Martian rocks and soil. The instrument will take color pictures of features as tiny as 12.5 microns ? smaller than the width of a human hair.
MAHLI sits on the end of Curiosity's five-jointed, 7-foot (2.1-meter) robotic arm, which is itself a marvel of engineering. So mission scientists will be able to point their high-tech hand lens pretty much wherever they want.
Mars Descent Imager (MARDI)
MARDI, a small camera located on Curiosity's main body, will record video of the rover's descent to the Martian surface (which will be accomplished with the help of a hovering, rocket-powered sky crane). [Video: Curiosity's Peculiar Landing]
MARDI will click on a mile or two above the ground, as soon as Curiosity jettisons its heat shield. The instrument will then take video at five frames per second until the rover touches down. The footage will help the MSL team plan Curiosity's Red Planet rovings, and it should also provide information about the geological context of the landing site, the 100-mile-wide (160-km) Gale Crater.
Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM)
SAM is the heart of Curiosity; at 83 pounds (38 kilograms), it makes up about half of the rover's science payload.
SAM is actually a suite of three separate instruments ? a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a laser spectrometer. These instruments will search for carbon-containing compounds, the building blocks of life as we know it. They will also look for other elements associated with life on Earth, such as hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen.
The SAM instrument suite is located in Curiosity's main body. The rover's robotic arm will drop samples into SAM via an inlet on the rover's exterior. Some of these samples will come from the interior of rocks, powder bored out by a 2-inch (5-centimeter) drill situated at the end of the arm.
None of Curiosity's predecessors could get deep into Martian rocks, so scientists are excited about the drill.
"For a geologist that studies rocks, there's nothing better than getting inside," said MSL deputy project scientist Joy Crisp, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin)
CheMin will identify different types of minerals on Mars and quantify their abundance, which will help scientists better understand past environmental conditions on the Red Planet.
Like SAM, CheMin has an inlet on Curiosity's exterior to accept samples delivered by the rover's robotic arm. The instrument will shine a fine X-ray beam through the sample, identifying minerals' crystalline structures based on how the X-rays diffract.
"This is like magic to us," Crisp told SPACE.com. X-ray diffraction is a leading diagnostic technique for Earthbound geologists, she explained, but it hasn't made it to Mars yet. So CheMin should help Curiosity provide more definitive mineral characterizations than previous Mars rovers such as Spirit and Opportunity have been able to achieve.?
Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam)
For sheer coolness, it's tough to beat ChemCam. This instrument will fire a laser at Martian rocks from up to 30 feet (9 meters) away and analyze the composition of the vaporized bits.
ChemCam will thus enable Curiosity to study rocks that are out of reach of its flexible robotic arm. It will also help the mission team determine from afar whether or not they want to send the rover over to investigate a particular landform.
ChemCam is composed of several different parts. The laser sits on Curiosity's mast, along with a camera and a small telescope. Three spectrographs sit in the rover's body, connected to the mast components by fiber optics. The spectrographs will analyze the light emitted by excited electrons in the vaporized rock samples.
Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS)
APXS, which sits at the end of Curiosity's arm, will measure the abundances of various chemical elements in Martian rocks and dirt.
Curiosity will place the instrument in contact with samples of interest, and APXS will shoot out X-rays and helium nuclei. This barrage will knock electrons in the sample out of their orbits, causing a release of X-rays. Scientists will be able to identify elements based on the characteristic energies of these emitted X-rays.
Spirit and Opportunity were outfitted with a previous version of APXS and used the instrument to help elucidate the prominent role water has played in shaping the Martian landscape. [Latest Mars Photos From Spirit and Opportunity]
Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)
DAN, located near the back of Curiosity's main body, will help the rover search for ice and water-logged minerals beneath the Martian surface.
The instrument will fire beams of neutrons at the ground, then note the speed at which these particles travel when they bounce back. Hydrogen atoms tend to slow neutrons down, so an abundance of sluggish neutrons would signal underground water or ice.
DAN should be able to map out water concentrations as low as 0.1 percent at depths up to 6 feet (2 m).
Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD)
The toaster-size RAD is designed specifically to help prepare for future human exploration of Mars. The instrument will measure and identify high-energy radiation of all types on the Red Planet, from fast-moving protons to gamma rays.
RAD's observations will allow scientists to determine just how much radiation an astronaut would be exposed to on Mars. This information could also help researchers understand how much of a hurdle Mars' radiation environment might have posed to the origin and evolution of life on the Red Planet.
Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS)
This tool, which sits partway up Curiosity's mast, is a Martian weather station. REMS will measure atmospheric pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, air temperature, ground temperature and ultraviolet radiation.
All of this information will be integrated into daily and seasonal reports, allowing scientists to get a detailed look at the Martian environment.
MSL Entry, Descent and Landing Instrumentation (MEDLI)
MEDLI isn't one of Curiosity's 10 instruments, since it's built into the heat shield that will protect the rover on its descent through the Martian atmosphere. But it's worth a few words here.
MEDLI will measure the temperatures and pressures the heat shield experiences as the MSL spacecraft streaks through the Martian sky. This information will tell engineers how well the heat shield, and their models of the spacecraft's trajectory, performed.
Researchers will use MEDLI data to improve designs for future Mars-bound spacecraft.
You can follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter: @michaeldwall. Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
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NASA flies robotic lander prototype to new heights
ScienceDaily (Nov. 21, 2011) ? NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center's propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. Data from this test series will aid in the design and development of a new generation of small, smart, versatile robotic landers capable of performing science and exploration research on the surface of the moon or other airless bodies in the solar system, such as asteroids or the planet Mercury.
Since early October, the Robotic Lander Development Project at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville has subjected the lander prototype to a series of more complex outdoor flight tests maneuvers. The team steadily increased the lander's flight profile, starting by hovering the lander -- dubbed Mighty Eagle -- at 3 feet, then 30 feet and finally a record 100-foot flight test.
During the 100-foot flight test, the lander autonomously flew for 30 seconds. The Mighty Eagle ascended to 100 feet, hovered and then demonstrated the equivalent of an autonomous landing on the lunar surface. The final maneuver simulated the required descent approach by horizontally translating 30 feet while descending and landing on target. The test demonstrated the lander's ability to maneuver to avoid hazards before performing a safe, controlled landing.
"The successful completion of the Mighty Eagle lander prototype provides a high level of confidence in our flight system design which significantly reduces cost and schedule," said Julie Bassler, Robotic Lander Development project manager at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. "Our combined NASA and contractor team went from the drawing board to successfully flight testing an autonomous, closed-loop, lander prototype system in less than two years," she said. "Mighty Eagle has performed well, demonstrating precision ascents, descents and horizontal translation flights to prove the lander can control itself and land safely."
"Our small team has worked tirelessly to develop a robust lander system," said Dr. Greg Chavers, lead systems engineer for the Robotic Lander Development Project at Marshall. "The prototype lander has the capability to launch, descend and land safely on its own -- without a man in the loop -- demonstrating the lander's autonomous and reusable test capability. Our team has matured the lander's guidance, navigation and control algorithms, which provided stable control of the lander, even through light wind and rain."
Mighty Eagle is a three-legged prototype that resembles an actual flight lander design. It is 4 feet tall and 8 feet in diameter and weighs 700 pounds when fueled with 90 percent hydrogen peroxide.
The lander receives its commands from an onboard computer that activates its 16 onboard thrusters -- 15 pulsed and one gravity cancelling thruster -- to carry it to a controlled landing using a pre-programmed flight profile. The prototype serves as a platform to develop and test algorithms, sensors, avionics, software, landing legs, and integrated system elements to support autonomous landings on airless planetary bodies, where aero-braking and parachutes are not options.
The next test phase of the test series is set to resume in early Spring when weather is more favorable for outdoor flight test. This new test series will test enhanced navigation capabilities.
Development and integration of the lander prototype is a cooperative endeavor led by the Robotic Lunar Lander Development Project at the Marshall Center; Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory; and the Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, which includes the Science Applications International Corporation, Dynetics Corp., Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc., and Millennium Engineering and Integration Company, all of Huntsville.
The project is partnered with the U.S. Army's Test and Evaluation Command's test center located at Redstone Arsenal. The Redstone Test Center is one of six centers under the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command and has been a leading test facility for defense systems since the 1950s. Utilizing an historic test site at the arsenal, the project is leveraging the Redstone Test Center's advanced capability for propulsion testing.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Capture Siri-created reminders with OmniFocus for iPhone
The popular productivity app Omnifocus has been updated with the ability to capture reminders created with Siri. When the app is launched, it will grab the tasks in your Reminders app and add them to your OmniFocus inbox. Location-based reminders have also been improved with this update. Here’s the...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
New 'Arrested Development' coming to Netflix
LOS ANGELES?? The Bluths are back.
For the first time since "Arrested Development" was canceled in 2006, the dysfunctional and ethically challenged Southern California clan will return for all new episodes.
The show will be available exclusively to Netflix members beginning in 2013.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine Television will produce the show.
The move is a huge boost to Netflix, which has been trying to establish a presence in the original content world. Last summer, the subscription service beat out the likes of HBO for the rights to the David Fincher and Kevin Spacey political series "House of Cards."
The cult hit aired for three seasons, 2003-2006, on Fox and won an Emmy for best comedy. Showtime had reportedly been pursuing rights to air the show, as well.
Story: 'Arrested Development' team fired up for movieIn a releasing announcing the shows, Netflix made no mention about whether the entire cast, which includes Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, David Cross and Michael Cera, will return for another round. However, Cross, Bateman and Arnett have spoken enthusiastically about a reunion.
"Netflix's bold entrance into original programming presents an exciting new opportunity for our two companies" Peter Levinsohn, Fox Filmed Entertainment's President of New Media & Digital Distribution, said in a statement. "Bringing a classic show back to production on new episodes exclusively for Netflix customers is a game changer, and illustrates the incredible potential the new digital landscape affords great content providers like Twentieth Century Fox Television and Imagine."
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News that "Arrested Development" was getting a revival, broke after co-creator and executive producer Mitch Hurwitz announced at a New Yorker Festival reunion in October that he planned to bring back the show for an abbreviated season to lead into a long-awaited "Arrested Development" movie.
At the time, Hurwitz said that the show would catch up viewers on what the members of the deeply disturbed Bluth family have done since the series ended, and would run for nine to ten episodes.
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Photo: Check out Cung Le?s mangled nose
Cung Le's UFC debut did not go as planned. It ended with a loss to Wanderlei Silva and his nose spread across his face.
Ouch. At least he and Silva won the Fight of the Night bonus for $70,000. That should help ease his pain.
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Saturday, November 19, 2011
Congress' OK of big spending bill shows GOP split (AP)
WASHINGTON ? Congress has sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan spending bill that averts a federal shutdown, but widespread Republican defections underscore rifts between the party's conservatives and pragmatists.
The legislation, passed Thursday, will keep all federal agencies functioning through Dec. 16, giving lawmakers more time to complete their tardy budget work.
The bill also finances five Cabinet-level agencies through the rest of the government's budget year, which runs through next September. Lawmakers still have to write nine of the 12 annual spending bills for the fiscal year that started Oct. 1, covering giant agencies like the Pentagon and the Health and Human Services Department.
But Thursday's votes highlighted the problems the party will have winning support for those bills, and deeper GOP divisions that extend to taxes and deficit reduction.
The compromise bill cleared Congress easily. Senate passage was by 70-30 and House approval was 298-121, with nearly all Democrats in both chambers supporting the measure.
Among Republicans, it was far different. GOP senators tilted against the legislation 30-17, while House Republicans backed it by a narrow 133-101 margin.
"We need real cuts, not minuscule cuts and certainly not increases," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who voted against passage.
Because Republicans knew that Democratic support for the legislation was solid, many of them may have felt free to vote against the spending bill, knowing their vote would not cause the government to shut its doors. Lawmakers were not eager to force a shutdown that would have further sullied Congress' rock-bottom popularity with voters.
Even so, the vote seemed to echo GOP splits that have arisen over the work of Congress' bipartisan supercommittee, which is flailing in its attempt to agree to $1.2 trillion in 10-year deficit cuts by a deadline Wednesday.
As the price of a deal with Democrats, some Republicans on the supercommittee have floated a plan that would increase taxes by nearly $300 billion over the decade while revamping the tax code. But that has stoked anger by many others in the GOP who say it would be blasphemy for the party to abandon its core stance against boosting revenue.
With next year's presidential and congressional elections coming into view, that is only intensifying pressure on Republicans to take what they think will be a winning position on tax and spending issues.
Supporters of the spending bill like House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said the measure stuck by a compromise that Republicans and Obama reached last summer to limit this year's agency spending to just over $1 trillion ? an amount that is $7 billion below last year's levels.
The bill will "help put our budget and our economy on track," Rogers said during Thursday's debate.
But opponents said the bill still overspent. Conservatives also opposed language expanding the size of mortgages that can be insured by the Federal Housing Administration, a provision they said would expose taxpayers to more risk as homebuyers default.
"We have a moral obligation to not lay additional burdens on our posterity," Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., said.
The bill would provide $182 billion to finance the departments of Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Agriculture, Commerce and Justice, and many smaller agencies.
Liberals were upset that the bill blocks Obama administration efforts to prod schools to offer students healthier lunches. That includes forcing the government to continue considering the tomato paste on pizzas a vegetable, a provision that was heavily lobbied by many food concerns.
Democrats were happy that the measure included more money than Republicans wanted for providing food to poor women, children and older people; helping communities hire police officers; operating federal prisons; financing the National Science Foundation; and for highway and transit programs.
GOP leaders told their rank-and-file that the bill would eliminate 20 federal programs. All were relatively small, including a $35 million Agriculture Department healthy food initiative and a $12 million National Science Foundation underground science lab.
They also noted that the bill provided none of the $8 billion Obama requested for building high-speed rail lines and none of the $322 million the president sought to establish a climate change office in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Obama's request for an additional $308 million for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is responsible for implementing much of last year's financial regulatory law, was cut to $205 million. Reductions were also included for NASA.
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How to Prepare Your Hand-Me-Down iPhone 4 [IPhone]
Congratulations on your upgrade to an iPhone 4S! What are you going to do with your old iPhone 4? If you're like me, you want to give it to a spouse, partner, child or friend, because they've got an older, lousier phone. But is it possible? Doesn't the iPhone 4 have a weird micro-SIM? Here's how.
First, let's wipe your old phone. We're going to assume that you've already backed up your phone and transferred the data to your new iPhone 4S. If not, do that first in iTunes by right clicking on your iPhone icon in the left column and hitting Back Up.
The easiest way to erase the phone of all your data and personal info is to go to the Settings app on the phone itself. Then go to General -> Reset (all the way at the bottom) -> Erase All Content and Settings. Then tap Erase iPhone to confirm. This takes a few minutes to a few hours, depending on the state of your phone.
If your recipient is upgrading from an old iPhone, make sure to back up that phone as well, so you can restore it later. You can do this while you're waiting for your iPhone 4 to wipe. Multitask!
Verizon Users
Luckily for you, Verizon users have it extremely easy, because they don't have any SIM cards to deal with. All you need to do is activate the phone on thew recipient's account, and you can do it either on the phone or online. Here's what Verizon recommends.
When you are ready, please dial *228 and SEND from the iPhone and press option 1 to activate. Then follow the prompts to complete the activation.
You can also make this change online. Below I have provided you with the steps:
- Sign in to My Verizon Express at http://www.vzw.com.
- Under the Device column, select Activate a Device.
- Select which device to change, if a multi-line account.
- Enter the ESN/MEID of the new device in the appropriate field.
- Select Next. The Review Your Changes screen displays.
- Select Next. The Plan Feature Changes Required screen displays if any current features are incompatible with the new device.
- Select Continue.
- Select the features for the new device by selecting the drop down arrows to view the options.
- Select Next. The Review Your Changes screen displays.
- Select Submit.
Note: The customer must dial *228/option 1 to complete the activation.??
AT&T Users
Because the iPhone 4 is the only phone on AT&T to use a micro-SIM, your recipient is almost certainly using a phone with a regular SIM. What you need to do is to shrink down a regular SIM to a micro-SIM.
I used this micro SIM cutter, which worked fantastic on the first try. (Good, because you only get one try.)
To eject the micro-SIM tray, just use a very thin paper clip, or a sewing needle, and push down into the micro-SIM ejector hole. You'll need to use a little bit of force, but not so much that you're trying to punish your phone.
Now, take your regular-sized SIM and slot it into the cutter, then take the original micro-SIM from your iPhone 4 and visually line the two up. You want to adjust the SIM in the cutter so that there is enough margin on all four sides so the metal contact area doesn't push up against the edge. A good guideline is to make it look as similar to your old micro-SIM as possible.
Line the SIM up and clamp the cutter down hard enough so the SIM remains in place and doesn't slide around, but not too hard so you actually start punching out the SIM. Practice what carpenters and mohels preach: Measure twice, cut once. Ensure your SIM is lined up, then push down HARD and FAST to get a clean punch.
All that's left is putting the newly-cut SIM into the micro-SIM slot and inserting it back into the iPhone 4. If you're confused which end is which, the ejection hole faces toward the bottom of the phone (the speaker or Home button).
Then, connect your phone to iTunes to activate, and you're done. If the lucky new owner of your iPhone 4 had an iTunes backup of their own phone, you can restore it by right clicking on the iPhone in the left hand side of iTunes, and clicking Restore From Backup.
That's it! Now both of you have iPhones, and you can iMessage and FaceTime each other until one of you gets bored or annoyed.
Turning a micro-SIM back into a SIM
If you ever want to use that micro-SIM in a normal phone (like an Android phone, for example) that takes a regular SIM, you'll need to use an adapter. The micro-SIM cutter we recommended above comes with two micro-SIM adapters in order to use that micro-SIM in a normal, non-iPhone 4 phone. They're "good enough" but not great. You can get this adapter for $1, which has better reviews.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
How to Defeather 60 Pounds of Turkey in 30 Seconds [Monster Machines]
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Turkey eyes new trade routes to bypass Syria violence (Reuters)
ISTANBUL (Reuters) ? Turkey is weighing new transport routes to the Middle East that will bypass Syria where increasing violence has caused a 10 percent drop in Turkish exports to Damascus over the past six weeks, Turkey's Economy Minister said on Thursday.
Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan, who was meeting business leaders in Istanbul to discuss developments in Syria, said while exports to Syria had increased in the first nine months of 2011, October and November figures had shown a drop.
Turkey is Syria's largest trading partner with bilateral trade worth $2.5 billion in 2010, and investments by Turkish firms in Syria reaching $260 million, Turkish data shows.
"We are looking at transport routes to the Middle East and Gulf countries via Syria. In this respect we are working to identify alternative routes," Caglayan said at the start of the meeting.
"In the first nine months of 2011 exports to Syria rose 3.7 percent compared to the same period of last year, whilst in October to November they fell 10 percent compared to the same period of last year," he said.
Caglayan said the decline over the last six weeks had been due to firms being put off by risks related to increasing violence and the unstable political situation in Syria.
Turkey's search for new routes bypassing Syria appeared to be more of an attempt make up for that lost trade than a political policy to punish Syria for the violence there.
"We have created a desk to observe developments in Syria. We continue to identify the losses already occurred and future losses in Syria for our investors and businessmen," Caglayan said.
After long courting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Turkey has in recent months stepped up criticism over its neighbor's failure to end an eight-month crackdown on protests and implement promised democratic reforms.
Turkey's foreign minister said on Tuesday that Syria had missed its "last chance" to stop repression and it would pay a "high price" for doing so.
Turkey has said for weeks it is preparing sanctions that will target the Syrian government and not the people. But there have been few details on those sanctions, or if and when they will be imposed.
INVESTMENTS STOPPED
Apart from exporting goods to Syria, Turkey uses its southern neighbor as a transit route to deliver Turkish goods to other countries in the Middle East.
Musfik Yamanturk, CEO of Guris Construction, which has invested more than $50 million in Syria, said plans for future investment had been put on hold.
"We have invested $50-55 million into a cement factory in Syria. We were going to invest further, raising the total amount to 280 million euros, but we have stopped it," he told Reuters after the meeting with Caglayan.
"There is nothing else to do but wait. Our investment in Syria has not been damaged, it's all fine, but everything has stopped. But we will continue investing in Syria in the future," he added.
Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Tuesday that Turkey may review its supplies of electricity to Damascus if it does not change course.
(Writing by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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"If Something Isn't Happening, You're Not Ready For It" [Quotables]
"If something is not happening for you it doesn't mean it's never going to happen. It means you're not ready for it." ~ Unknown
It's easy to get discouraged when you fail, especially when that failure appears to be monumental. We all want to be ready to be great right now, but things don't always work out that way. It's important to remember that if something isn't working, you shouldn't just give up. Instead, give it time. If you keep trying you'll be ready at some point down the line and you'll eventually achieve your goal.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Laxman hundred keeps India ticking over (Reuters)
KOLKATA (Reuters) ? Vangipurappu Laxman completed his 17th test hundred as India continued to plunder runs in their first innings against West Indies on the second day of the second test at Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
India, opting to bat first after winning the toss, were 433 for six, with Laxman (106) and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (22) at the crease when murky and overcast conditions forced lunch to be taken 19 minutes earlier than scheduled.
The 37-year-old Laxman, unbeaten on 73 overnight, got to his fifth century at Eden Gardens with a trademark on-driven boundary off West Indies captain Darren Sammy.
The stylish right-hander negotiated the second new ball, three deliveries old from the first day's play, with Yuvraj Singh to add 50 for the sixth wicket partnership.
Left-handed Yuvraj looked uncomfortable during his 35-ball stay at the crease and was peppered with short-pitched deliveries by the West Indies pacemen, a bouncer from Fidel Edwards hitting him on his shoulder.
Yuvraj was finally out leg before wicket to Sammy for 25 after a few close shaves, bringing Dhoni to the crease.
The Indian captain made his intentions of garnering quick runs clear with a few lofted drives and by dancing down the wicket on a few occasions to the fast bowlers.
He was twice caught behind off paceman Kemar Roach but on both occasions the deliveries were ruled no-balls, much to the frustration of the West Indies fielders.
The teams will play the third and final test in Mumbai from Nov. 22. India lead the three-match series 1-0.
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly; Editing by John O'Brien; To query or comment on this story, email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)
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Can Science Solve-Really Solve-the Problem of Beauty?
Last summer, I wrote about my run-in with a rabid skunk, which reinforced my disbelief in a benign, all-powerful God. If such a God exists, why does He allow some people to suffer so much, through no fault of their own? Like people killed by rabies or leukemia, a tsunami or an earthquake? This is the old problem of evil. My inability to answer this riddle keeps me from adhering to Catholicism?the faith in which I was raised?or any other religion.
But I am not an atheist, either, and here?s why: The flip side of the problem of evil is the problem of beauty. If there really is no God, if the world was not in some sense designed for us, why is it so heartbreakingly lovely?
The British biologist and arch-atheist Richard Dawkins flicked at this issue in Climbing Mount Improbable (W.W. Norton, 1997). Dawkins recalled driving through the countryside with his six-year-old daughter when she enthused over some ?pretty? wildflowers. When Dawkins asked what she thought wildflowers are for, the innocent child replied, ?To make the world pretty, and to help the bees make honey for us.? Dawkins?bless his hyper-rational heart!?mused: ?I was touched by this, and sorry I had to tell her it wasn?t so.? (I actually laughed out loud the first time I read this passage. Imagine what Dawkins would say if his daughter asked about Santa Claus!)
Dawkins pointed out that his daughter?s logic resembles that of Christian fundamentalists who claim that God created the AIDS virus to punish sinners. True enough. But Dawkins never adequately explained why nature evokes such a profound aesthetic response in us. His fellow biologist Edward O. Wilson gave it a shot. Wilson suggested that natural selection might have instilled in us a ?biophilia,? or reverence for nature, that benefits both us and those creatures with which we enjoy mutually beneficial relationships. But why do we respond to so many things?butterflies, starfish, rainbows, sunsets?from which we extract no tangible, utilitarian benefit?
Another famous atheist, the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, eloquently explained his lack of belief in Dreams of a Final Theory (Vintage, 1994). Weinberg had no complaints about his own life. He had been ?remarkably happy, perhaps in the upper 99.99 percentile.? But he had seen ?a mother die painfully of cancer, a father?s personality destroyed by Alzheimer?s disease, and scores of second and third cousins murdered in the Holocaust.?
Weinberg rejected the proposition that evil is the price we pay for our God-given free will. ?It seems a bit unfair for my relatives to be murdered in order to provide an opportunity for free will for the Germans,? he noted, ?but even putting that aside, how does free will account for cancer? Is it an opportunity of free will for tumors?? Good questions. But then Weinberg added this line, which, like Dawkins?s recollection of how he disillusioned his daughter, made me smile: ?I have to admit that sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.? Talk about an understatement!
My friend David Rothenberg, a philosopher at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, is, I think it?s fair to say, obsessed with the problem of beauty. He has been poking, prodding and pondering the problem for many years. He has trekked around the world to interview scientists who, in one way or another, study beauty (even if they shun that term) and attempt to explain it, if not explain it away. His research has led to a trilogy of marvelous books: Why Birds Sing: A Journey into the Mystery of Bird Song (Basic Books, 2006); Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound (Basic Books, 2008); and, released just last month, Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science, and Evolution (Bloomsbury).
His new book considers not just music?in which Rothenberg, as a musician, has a special interest?but beauty in all its manifestations, and especially visual art, whether Paleolithic cave paintings or the ethereal, sculptures of bowerbirds. Rothenberg does all the things that conventional science writers do. He interviews experts in their labs and in the field, weighs the evidence for their theories, offer his assessments and so on. But he also engages with his material in utterly original ways. In an attempt to understand the music of other species, he has played his clarinet with a lyrebird in Australia and with a humpback whale in Hawaii.
Rothenberg, whom I interviewed on Saturday for Bloggingheads.tv, argues passionately that we are not the only species with an eye and ear for beauty and a compulsion to create. He is dissatisfied with theories that attempt to explain beauty in strictly functional, evolutionary terms, as a mere side effect of mating or communication. These theories, he asserts, do not do justice to the richness and complexity of art, whether human or inhuman. He proposes that a laughing thrush lets fly a new aria and a satin bowerbird adorns his sculpture with blue flowers not just to attract mates but for the sake of beauty itself, for the sheer joy of creation, just as human artists do.
In his new book, Rothenberg proposes that many species might be shaped by a principle that he calls ?aesthetic selection.? But he doesn?t pretend that this idea solves the problem of beauty any more than sexual selection or other more mainstream hypotheses do. He?s less interested in solving the problem?in reducing it to some underlying, mechanical process?than in celebrating it. He dances around it, writes a poem about it, paints a picture of it, plays a duet with it, and he thereby illuminates the problem of beauty more than any mere theory can.
Image courtesy Bloomsbury Press.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Amazon tablet has chips from TI, Samsung, Hynix (Reuters)
(Reuters) ? Amazon.com Inc's Kindle Fire tablet computer uses components from Texas Instruments, Samsung, LG and Hynix Semiconductor, according to repair firm iFixit, which cracked the device open on Tuesday.
Amazon's first tablet computer shipped on Monday and the largest Internet retailer is expected to sell as many as five million of the devices in the fourth quarter and more next year.
While that is not as many units as Apple Inc's market-leading iPad tablet, it is enough that investors have been watching to see which components are in the new device.
"Three to five million units per quarter could be meaningful for certain component makers," said Brad Gastwirth, of independent research firm ABR Investment Strategy, LLC.
"For the fourth quarter, three to five million is pretty much baked in but if this grows to significantly more per quarter, it will become very significant to many component companies," he added.
IFixit opened the Kindle Fire on Tuesday and an early look inside showed that the device includes chips made by Texas Instruments, Samsung and Hynix, said Miroslav Djuric, director of technical communication at iFixit.
The main application processor is a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor, Djuric added.
Samsung supplied the 8 gigabyte flash memory chip, while Hynix made a DDR 2 RAM component for the device, Djuric said.
The Kindle Fire's display was made by LG, he also reported.
The Kindle Fire looks similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook from Research in Motion, leading some analysts to speculate the devices have the same components.
"It's similar to the PlayBook in the sense that it has the same basic components -- motherboard, battery, display," Djuric said.
The PlayBook also uses the TI OMAP 4430 processor, he noted.
"The case opens up similarly to the PlayBook as well," Djuric said. "But inside it has a completely different layout, smaller battery, and different orientations for its components."
(Reporting by Alistair Barr and Noel Randewich in San Francisco; Editing by Gary Hill, Bernard Orr)
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Syrian forces kill 4 at pro-Assad rally: activists (Reuters)
AMMAN (Reuters) ? Security forces shot dead four people who shouted slogans against President Bashar al-Assad at a rally organised by the authorities in the city of Hama on Sunday to show popular anger at an Arab League decision to suspend Syria, local activists said.
"Security forces were leading public workers and students into Orontes Square when groups broke away and started shouting 'the people want the fall of the regime'," one of the activists in Hama, 240 km (150 miles) north of Damascus, said.
"They escaped into the alleyways but were followed, and four were killed," the activist added.
State television said millions of Syrians assembled in public arenas across the country to denounce the Arab League decision, which came in response to a crackdown by Assad's forces on pro-democracy protesters, which the United Nations says has killed 3,500 people.
Syrian officials blame the unrest on "terrorists" and foreign backed Islamist militants and say that 1,100 soldiers and police have been killed.
The television showed crowds carrying Syrian flags and posters of Assad at public squares in Damascus, the eastern city of Raqqa and the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous.
Syrian authorities have banned most independent media since the uprising demanding political freedoms and an end to 41 years of Assad family rule began in March.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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Monday, November 14, 2011
Is Silvio Berlusconi really gone for good? (The Week)
New York ? Italy's leader resigns over a crushing debt crisis, but some believe the survivor of myriad sex and corruption scandals will bounce back from this, too
After dominating Italian politics for 17 years, Silvio Berlusconi was forced to resign?as prime minister on Saturday.?Italy has piled up $2.6 trillion in sovereign debt ? an incredible 130 percent of the nation's gross domestic product of $2 trillion ? and?Berlusconi's government crumbled when it failed to pull the country back from the brink of financial disaster. After resigning, the 75-year-old media magnate was jeered by angry crowds who hurled coins at his limousine and called him a clown. Still, Berlusconi has rebounded before from innumerable political setbacks, corruption charges, and sex scandals. Is his political career truly over?
Silvio is really and truly done:?Berlusconi is lucky he wasn't "led out of office in handcuffs,"?says Alex Fusco at Britain's?Independent. For years, the "undisputed clown of international politics" dodged corruption convictions and somehow emerged unscathed from one sex scandal after another. But letting Italy slide "into the abyss" of fiscal crisis has discredited Berlusconi with "politicians from all sides." There's no future in Italian government for him.
"Berlusconi is gone ? but not in the manner we anticipated"
Don't count Berlusconi out yet: A new coalition government is forming under ex-European Union commissioner Mario Monti, says Aaron Goldstein at The American Spectator. But even in the best of times, Italian governments rarely last more than a year or two, and Monti probably won't make it that long. Since World War II ended, Italy has had an incredible 60 coalition governments. Under such fluid circumstances, it would "come as no shock" if Berlusconi winds up back in power somehow.
"Berlusconi will be back"
He's only leaving office ? not power: Berlusconi isn't going to disappear, says David Dayen at Firedoglake. He's going "from being prime minister to just being Rupert Murdoch, in control of most of the media Italians see." He'll still be around, steering public opinion and "wielding influence behind the scenes," whether he comes back to life politically or not.
"An elegy for Berlusconi, the man who ruined Italy (again)"
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